Man, oh man. I haven't laughed this hard at a political scandal since, well, never. According to the Associated Press, "Hastert sought to blame Democrats for leaking sexually explicit computer instant messages between Foley and former pages from 2003."
Right. See it is OK to write sexually explicit messages to youth, but not share them with the media while the Republican party is trying to hide them. That's just unethical! I also love how Newt Gingrich claimed (according to my co-worker) that the only reason that the party didn't do anything about Foley (which, incidentally, is a type of catheter - is there not some weird irony in that?) is because they did not want to alienate gay people. Again, because gay people are never bothered when you compare homosexuality to bestiality and incest or try to Constitutionally ban them from enjoying the same legal rights as straight married couples. But when you crack down on child molesters, forget it! Not that that statement in and of itself is not completely offensive....
I do love how the public is completely not bothered at all by the fact that Bush lied about the war in Iraq and continues to do so on a daily basis, which leads to lots of people dying, but dear God, you throw around some sex talk, and you are going down, Mr. Politician. (Maybe not literally.)
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Well dying for your country is way better than being gay. You don't know anything you unpatriotic bitch!
ReplyDelete(Was that too harsh? I think it was too harsh.)
p.s go read Glenna's blog for a good take on a very similar quote.
So should we start counting down the days 'til we move to Spain? Because despite the country's racism and strong Catholic influence, I hear they've legalized gay marriage over there. Not to mention how their fashion industry just BANNED the use of underweight models.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Spain's where it's at.
I just read an email from a Republican friend of mine. He said you can tell it is an election year - the Democrats are nit-picking things the Republicans overlooked. I want to kick his butt, I know he would nit-pick if the shoe was on the other foot, like he did before.
ReplyDeletewell, normally i'd agree, but in this case i am pretty fucking pissed that they are making hay out of this while even from those Democrats who did vote "no" (i still can't fucking believe that ntot all of them did, excepting of course fucking Lieberman) it's been pretty much -crickets- on the vote to basically say "sure, Mr. President! torture whomever you want to! declare anyone you want an 'enemy combatant,' possibly including us'n's! habeas corpus? habeas whosis? Constititution, Schmonsitution, let's talk about SEXY SCANDALS. we are shocked, shocked, let us tell you. p.s. send more money!"
ReplyDeleteyou know what really pisses me off: i knew perfectly well that responding "FUCK YOU" to the automated messages would just get bounced back, but i did it anyway.
not of course that this is Republican friend's axe to grind, i assume...
but goddamit they ought to care, too.
i mean really. YAY AMERICA! YAY FREEDOM! (whatever that actually means; no, actually we have no frigging idea. it's like a football game, innit?)
gahhhh.
Belledame, I do agree with you. The choices we have politically are between the pathetic and the evil. It's so wrong.
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